Where does Fairfield Industries Incorporated rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Fairfield Industries Incorporated ranks #6,770 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Fairfield Industries Incorporated hold?

Fairfield Industries Incorporated holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2022, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Fairfield Industries Incorporated's Innovation Score?

Fairfield Industries Incorporated has an Innovation Score of 45.0 out of 100 (top 24% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Fairfield Industries Incorporated focus on?

Fairfield Industries Incorporated's top technology area is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags) with 37 patents, ranking #33 of 835 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

Is Fairfield Industries Incorporated's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Fairfield Industries Incorporated's recent grant velocity is -83% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Fairfield Industries Incorporated's patents?

Fairfield Industries Incorporated's patents average 21.3 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Fairfield Industries Incorporated patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Fairfield Industries Incorporated

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 24 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2022. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Fairfield ranks #6,770 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 24 technology areas.

#6,770
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 24%
by Innovation Score (45.0/100): 21.3
avg claims per patent: -83%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6770 · US Corporation #6,770 · 49 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-DENSE · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,770/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Elite Semiconductor…
CPC-FOCUS G01V · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.0/100
CLAIMS-DENSE 21.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -83% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Fairfield’s 45.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 13.5 pts (30%) Velocity 1.3 pts (3%) Breadth 17.3 pts (39%) Claim depth 12.8 pts (29%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Arbor Networks · near

45
Fairfield Industries… · this assignee

45
Icom Incorporated · near

45
Jiangsu Zhongheng… · near

45
PrimeWan · near

45
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Fairfield's Innovation Score is 45.0/100 (top 24% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Fairfield?

Each dot is one of Fairfield’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Fairfield’s own 21.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.3 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Fairfield vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where Fairfield's grants concentrate

Fairfield Industries Incorporated is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 75.5% of grants classified under G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags). Peak complete grant year is 2016 (15 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2020. By volume, Fairfield sits between Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc. and GEA Food Solutions Bakel B.V..

Fairfield's three-year grant acceleration

Fairfield Industries Incorporated shows 2 grants in 2022–2024 against only 10 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Elite Semiconduct…

49
Endress+Hauser Co…

49
Express Imaging S…

49
Fidia Farmaceutic…

49
Friedrich-schille…

49
Future Dial

49
GE Healthcare UK

49
GEA Food Solution…

49
Fairfield Industr… ◀

49

What this shows Fairfield holds 49 patents at rank #6,771, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Fairfield

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,771 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G01V (Geophysics)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Fairfield's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Fairfield, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G01V (Geophysics), Fairfield ranks #33 of 835 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (45 here).

Arbor Networks, Inc. 45 Icom Incorporated 45 Jiangsu Zhongheng PET Articles Joint-stock Co., Ltd. 45 PrimeWan Limited 45

Fairfield's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

45 Top 24% higher than 76% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2022

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Fairfield Industries Incorporated patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	2	4.1%
2016	15	30.6%
2017	13	26.5%
2018	7	14.3%
2019	5	10.2%
2020	1	2.0%
2021	4	8.2%
2022	2	4.1%

Which technologies does Fairfield Industries Incorporated patent most?

G01V - GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags 37

B63B - Ships OR Other Waterborne VESSELS; Equipment FOR Shipping 10

B63G - Offensive OR Defensive Arrangements ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; Aircraft Carriers 10

B63C - Launching, Hauling-out, OR Dry-docking OF VESSELS; Life-saving IN WATER; Equipment FOR Dwelling OR Working Under WATER; Means FOR Salvaging OR Searching FOR Underwater Objects 7

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 5

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 5

H04B - Transmission 5

B65G - Transport OR Storage Devices, e.g. Conveyors FOR Loading OR Tipping, Shop Conveyor Systems OR Pneumatic Tube Conveyors 4

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 4

H03G - Control OF Amplification 4

H04Q - Selecting 3

G05D - Systems FOR Controlling OR Regulating Non-electric Variables 2

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 2

F16G - Belts, Cables, OR Ropes, Predominantly Used FOR Driving PURPOSES; CHAINS; Fittings Predominantly Used Therefor 2

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 2

Top 15 of 24 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Fairfield Industries Incorporated's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Fairfield Industries Incorporated's lead technology class is G01V (GEOPHYSICS; Gravitational MEASUREMENTS; Detecting Masses OR OBJECTS; Tags), 75.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G01V
Ranked #6,770 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Fairfield Industries Incorporated against Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.0/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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